Quotes About Design

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Architecture is petrified music.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

All gardening is landscape painting.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.